Michael Kinsley of Time Magazine is placing blame for the mess in Iraq in an interesting place, on us. Yes, that’s right, he says that the American public, or at least the majority who once upon a time favored the war in polls, should be admitting they were wrong or even apologizing. He reasons that, since the war "did in fact have the support of most Americans, which surely egged him [President Bush] on. The ensuing disaster is partly the fault of those Americans who told pollsters back in 2002 and 2003 that they supported Bush’s war…"

It's not that I can't admit I was wrong, but inherent in fault is knowledge and responsibility. At the time, I did not have access to the pre-war intelligence that turned out to be flawed, nor have I been responsible for the planning and execution of the war, which is a problem over and above the choice to go to war in the first place. Many of us, if given the same information (especially about the existence of weapons of mass destruction,) might make the same choice to support the war again. But, we had bad information, and whose fault was that?